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SUMMARY:‘“Rivers of Blood”: Illustrating Violence and Virtue in Russ
 ia’s Early Modern Empire - Professor Valerie Kivelson (Michigan)
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CONTACT:Mel Bach
DESCRIPTION: In the sixteenth and seventeenth century\, between the reign 
 of Ivan the Terrible and that of Peter the Great\, Muscovite Russian force
 s swept eastward\, conquering\, colonizing\, and controlling territories r
 eaching from the Volga to the Pacific. While early modern European thinker
 s such as Las Casas\, Sepulveda\, Hobbes and Locke pondered the pragmatics
  and ethics of imperial conquest\, Muscovites wasted little time on theory
 .  In the absence of textual treatises\, visual depictions of bloody battl
 es\, ruthless punishment\, and colonial rule reveal surprising patterns\, 
 with significant\, and unexpected\, implications for understanding Russian
  policies of imperial incorporation.\n\nValerie Kivelson (PhD Stanford Uni
 versity) teaches at the University of Michigan.  Her publications include 
 Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Ru
 ssia (2013)\; Cartographies of Tsardom:  The Land and Its Meanings in Seve
 nteenth-Century Russia (2006)\, and Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visu
 al Culture\, co-edited with Joan Neuberger (2008). 
LOCATION:Latimer Room\, Clare College
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